Short Term Car & Van Insurance

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When Would You Need Short Term Cover?

If you need instant insurance cover for life’s little emergencies, Short-Term Insurance is the answer to your needs.

You can arrange comprehensive cover to insure yourself on another car or to cover an extra driver to drive your own car within minutes. You can select your preferred cover period, from 1 day up to 84 days.

Short Term Car & Van Insurance

Short Term Car & Van Insurance is a convenient way to arrange cover for a short period, be it for one day car insurance cover, a weekend’s cover or even up to one month’s temporary car insurance or short term van insurance. Both cars and vans are covered. Short-Term Insurance offer some of the best rates for short-term car & van insurance – and we constantly review our prices to remain the most competitive.

Details of short term cover include;

Online Comprehensive Cover

Instant cover from 1-84 days

Temp Cover for Drivers aged 18 to 75 years

Insure yourself on a different car

Insure someone else on your car

Cover arranged in minutes;

Online Quote in Seconds

Complete Proposal Form

Make Secure Online Payment

Print Certificate & Drive

You can use this site for the online purchasing of temporary car insurance & short-term van insurance cover in minutes. As soon as your card payment is authorised, you will receive a secure link to collect your insurance documents from our secure web server. You can save your quote and go back to it at a later date to buy instant cover online.

These terms & restrictions are a brief overview, not the complete terms – for a full list of our Acceptance Criteria, please view that page. Your policy will be invalid if you or your vehicle does not meet the eligibility criteria stated.

Comprehensive Cover

All policies offer Comprehensive cover.

What’s Covered under Comprehensive short term insurance?

Damage to the vehicle in an accident;

Malicious damage, fire, theft and vandalism;

Up to £20 million for damage to other people’s property;

Legal obligations to third parties for injury or damage claims;

Fees for emergency medical treatment;

MID – Motor Insurance Database

About the Motor Insurance Database & Short Term Insurance

The MID is a central database that holds information of insured vehicles within the UK. Shortly after a vehicle is insured, the MID is updated. The MID is used by some authorities to verify which vehicles are currently insured, like the police or those issuing car tax.

With short term insurance, after the purchase of the insurance, vehicle insurance details are submitted to Insurers the next working day.

This information is then passed to the Motor Insurer’s Database (MID) and can take up to seven days to appear on the MID. Policies taken out for less than 7 days may have expired by the time the MID have updated their record systems. You should therefore carry your insurance documents with you at all times as a record that the vehicle is insured correctly.

Frequently Asked Questions

Question: Can I start cover immediately?
Answer: Yes – cover can start from within a couple of minutes of purchasing.

Question: When do I get my Certificate of Insurance?
Answer: You can download & print this straight after successfully purchasing cover. An email will also be sent to you with the linked documentation.

Policy Documentation

Sample Policy Documents are available below – you can download these and keep for your reference.

Other Useful Documents

Excess Reduction Policy

The Excess Reduction Policy allows you to claim back part of your Policy Excess in the event of a fault claim. You do still need to pay out the excess first at the point of a claim, but you can recover up to the Excess Reduction amount back. For more information, see our Excess Reduction page.

Short-terminsurance.co.uk is a trading name of Sky Insurance Services Group Limited who are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Sky Insurance Services Group Limited is connected for the purposes of the Insurance Companies Regulations 1994 to Universal Insurance Company (Guernsey) Ltd who are authorised and regulated by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission.